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CHARSADDA: Unknown attackers in police uniform entered in a house and killed five persons including three women in firing here in Sardheri.

According to police, some 40 persons wearing police uniform cordoned off the house of a man named Ameer Nawaz while some of them jumping over the wall entered the house.

They took out Kamran, elder son of head of the family Ameer Nawaz, and murdered him while killed his mother, wife and sister firing inside the house.

Ameer Nawaz was also severely wounded and taken to District Hospital Charsadda where he died.

Police began the investigation of the incident.

Source:Charsadda: 3 women among 5 killed in firing

MALAKANAD: The operation against extremists continues in Malakand Agency and Swat and the security forces have gained control of the area of Kalil Kandao, a suburban area of Mingora.

According to sources, shelling from the security forces continues with regular intervals at hideouts of the militants in various areas from Himargarah Cantonment to Tehsil Maidan.

However, no loss of life has been reported .

Previous day, the security forces arrested three militants from Shamozai, an area of Chakdara in lower Dir.

In-charge operation Col Arshad, giving briefing to media, told that the area of Isband from Chakdara has been cleared.

Meanwhile, the security forces have gained control of the area of Kalil Kandao, a suburban area of Mingora.

As per media centre Swat, curfew in Shangla, Madyan and Khwazakhela will be relaxed today from 8-00 am to 5-00 pm.

Source:Operation against militants continues in Malakand, Swat

WANA: At least four security personnel were killed and eight others injured in South Waziristan Agency area of Jandolah and Saplatoi, Geo News reported Thursday.

The forces retaliated the attack with force in Saplatoi and killed two extremists.

According to sources, the extremists attacked FC camp in Jandolah area of FR Tank adjacent to SWA. Three personnel were killed as the rocket hit the camp and four security men were inured.

The forces returned the attack, on which, the attackers fled.

In Saplatoi area of SWA, the extremists attacked the security forces camp with rockets and automatic weapons, killing one security man and injuring four others.

The forces killed at least two miscreants in the countering the attack.

Source:4 security men killed in SWA attack

WASHINGTON: Pakistan is not using US military assistance to expand its nuclear arsenal, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, said on Monday.

“I am not aware of any US aid that’’s gone towards nuclear weapons,” Mullen told a gathering at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think-tank.

He said that the one exception was a portion of US funds in the past few years focused on “improving” security safeguards for Pakistan’’s nuclear weapons, “which is exactly what we like.”

Last week Mullen confirmed that Pakistan was seeking to bolster its nuclear arsenal but he avoided further comment on the subject at Monday’’s event.

At a congressional hearing on Friday, Senator Jim Webb asked the top ranking military officer if he had evidence that Pakistan was developing new nuclear weapons systems and warheads. “Yes,” Mullen replied, without elaborating.

Webb, a Democrat from Virginia, said Pakistan’’s moves were cause for “enormous concern” and yet were receiving less public attention than Iran’’s nuclear program.

“We”re spending a lot of time talking about the potential that Iran might have nuclear weapon capability and this is a regime that’’s far less stable and that should be a part of our debate,” Webb said at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

Webb and other members of Congress have questioned if billions in US military aid has been spent as intended by the Pakistani government.

On Monday, Mullen reiterated that he was encouraged with the Pakistan military’’s recent offensive against the Taliban in the northwest but he said the bigger question was whether Islamabad would keep up the pressure on the Islamists in the longer term.

“They need to sustain it. They need to provide sustained security for their people,” Mullen said.

He played down suggestions that the threat posed by the Taliban meant the Pakistani state was near collapse. “I don”t believe they are a country near failure,” he said.

Source:Pakistan not misappropriating US funds, says Mullen

RAWALPINDI: Two unfortunate poor people were burnt amid a gas cylinder blast here on Friday, sources said.

According to rescue sources, a loud blast was heard owing to a gas cylinder explosion at 11:45pm at a CNG station located near Chahsultan area, which broke out fire leaving two workers burnt.

The injured were at once shifted to a nearby hospital which said to be critical in condition, hospital sources said.

Source:Gas cylinder blast leaves 2 burnt in Pindi

KARACHI: The fire, broke out at four mattress and home-curtain shops, located in PECHS areas here, turned inferno gutting to ashes almost all articles worth of millions of rupees late on Friday but thankfully no loss of life was reported, fire fighting sources ascertained.

According to shop owners, mattresses and curtains and other materials costing millions of rupees were burnt to aches as the fire, erupted in one shop in the beginning, took no time to overpower the others located nearby.

As many as six fire tenders participated in rescue efforts to tame fire, fire brigade sources said.

Source:Mattress shops catch fire in Karachi

SHEIKHUPURA: The joint investigation team of intelligence agencies claimed arresting three terror suspects including two suicide bombers near Ferozwala bus stand, seizing two suicide jackets and weaponry from their possession here on Friday, intelligence agency sources said.

According to sources, the terror suspects, later identified as Noorullah (15), Muhammad Ameen (16) and their associate Abdul Saboor (33), were held as they were coming from Lahore to Ferozwala.

Sources said they were originally hailed from Afghanistan and were enrolled at a religious madasa in Mansehra.

Source:Two suicide bombers amid 3 terrorists booked

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has convened a high-level meeting to review the present law and order situation in the country.

Chief ministers of the four provinces will also be attending this meeting, source said.

Interior Advisor, Rehman Malik will give briefing on the overall law and order at the meeting, sources added.

Source:PM convenes high-level meeting over security

PESHAWAR: At least 18 militants were killed and over 20 injured in the skirmishes that tookd place between the security forces with the militants at Tehsil Pindyali and Ambar of Mohmand Agency.

FC sources told Geo News that a vigorous operation was underway at Tehsil Pindyali and Ambar, in which, the security forces claimed to have killed 18 militants and injured over 20.

FC sources further said that security forces have taken control of Pindyali, Ambar and other adjoining areas and also recovered five FC men from Dozai area, who were kidnapped two months ago from Mohmand Gut.

Source:18 militants killed in Mohmand Agency clashes

QUETTA: Dead bodies of 45 people have been recovered from a container here in Hazar Ganj area on Saturday.

According to sources, 150 people were inside the container who were being illegally taken across border.

The container was reportedly being transported through Afghanistan to Iran.

Eyewitnesses say, most of the deceased apparently belonged to Afghanistan and tribal areas.

The driver of the container escaped from the scene after he found the people inside the container fainting and dying.

The bodies and unconscious people have been shifted to nearby hospitals.

Source:45 bodies recovered from container in Quetta

WASHINGTON: A top US lawmaker has introduced a vast new aid package for Pakistan that aims to triple economic assistance and shore up democratic rule while crushing Islamist extremists, his office said Friday.

Democratic Representative Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, hopes to build “a new framework” between the two allies with the bill he offered on Thursday, his office said in a statement.

“We need to create a long-term strategic partnership with Pakistan, one that transcends our mutual counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism goals, and speaks to the needs of average Pakistani citizens,” Berman said.

There is consensus in Washington that stabilizing Afghanistan, and crushing Islamist Taliban fighters as well as Al-Qaeda and other extremist allies, requires enlisting significantly more support from Pakistan.

The measure calls for boosting US economic aid to 1.5 billion dollars per year through 2013 with a special emphasis on strengthening democratic rule of law there and overhauling Pakistan’’s education system — including the closure of any religious schools, known as madrassas, that support terrorism.

The bill also expands US military aid to Pakistan, including meeting some longstanding requests like a plea for more night-vision equipment and aerial drones, but limits most of the assistance to counter-terrorism efforts.

It also requires that all military aid go through Pakistan’’s elected government, and cites a requirement that Islamabad show a sustained commitment to fight terrorist groups and curb the spread of nuclear know-how.

“Our commitment to Pakistan’’s political stability and economic development is matched only by our sense of urgency in ensuring that Pakistan has the right tools to protect its people, secure its borders and intensify its operations against extremist elements,” said Berman.

The measure calls for not less than four million dollars for military training, including international military education.

Source:US lawmaker presents tripled Pakaid package

PESHAWAR: Provincial government NWFP, while ordering investigation into the incident that involved young girl being publicly flogged in Swat Valley, has directed Malakand administration to compile report soon.

According to statement released from here, spokesman provincial government and minister for information Mian Iftikhar Hussain has deplored the lashing of 17-year-old girl in public strongly and said neither humanity allow to perpetrate such brutality and atrocity nor did it is legitimate according to Islam.

Spokesman said Malakand administration has been directed to present report on incident soon.

Source:NWFP govt. orders investigation in Swat tragedy

LONDON: US and Pakistan have begun a joint operation to kill the head of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, a British newspaper reported.

A Pakistani intelligence official told UK daily that Washington had agreed to target Mehsud after months of persuasion by Islamabad’’s military leadership.

Pakistan will pass on intelligence about Mehsud’’s movements with the aim of guiding a missile attack from an American drone. In public, Paksitan’’s government opposes all strikes of this kind as an invasion of the country’’s sovereignty. Behind the scenes, however, Pakistan’’s government is quietly passing on targeting information to the Americans.

“We are mounting joint operations against Baitullah Mehsud which will hopefully soon show results,” said the official.

Mehsud, who is based in the Tribal Area of South Waziristan, threatened to target America after he claimed responsibility for the attack on a police-training centre outside Lahore on Monday.

The intelligence official said that Pakistan had twice given America intelligence about Mehsud’’s whereabouts so that he could be targeted. But he claimed the information had been ignored.

“He was travelling on a road from point A to point B, and twice we tipped off America”, said the official. “But nothing happened. That raised a question mark over America as an ally for us.”

American commanders now view Mehsud as a major threat. He is deemed to have links to al-Qaeda and last month he joined an alliance of Taliban leaders from across the border in Afghanistan who are preparing to counter President Barack Obama’’s deployment of more US troops in the country.

Source:US, Pak kick off joint operation against Mehsud

NEW YORK: Pakistan must be central to U.S. policy on Afghanistan and needs up to $50 billion over the next five years to avoid an economic meltdown that risks turning the country over to Islamic extremists, said a report released.

The report by a think tank with close ties to the Obama administration said Washington must also act to strengthen civilian government in Pakistan and persuade Islamabad to stop using militant groups as an instrument of foreign policy.

The Asia Society, whose chairman was Richard Holbrooke until he was appointed U.S. special envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan in January, convened a task force to compile the report: “Back from the Brink? A Strategy for Stabilizing Afghanistan-Pakistan.”

The report, made public on Thursday, was provided to President Barack Obama’’s administration before he unveiled his strategy on Afghanistan last week. It closely mirrors Obama’’s policy, while focusing more on politics than military issues. The report said the global economic crisis risked further weakening Pakistan’’s civilian government, which has little control over tribal areas that have become safe havens for al Qaeda, and which struggles to match the sway of the military.

“Perhaps the most urgent priority is to prevent economic collapse, which could undermine state authority even in major urban areas in the next few months,” the report said.

Source:Pakistan needs up to $50b in aid: Report

KARACHI: One man was killed and seven injured as two rival groups clashed in Gulistan-e-Johar area of metropolis on Thursday. Meanwhile, heavy troops of rangers and police have been deployed here after the incident, police sources.

According to police sources, two rival groups exchanged fire over a row of claiming ransom money in Phelwan Goth area. As a result, Syed Kamal (24) was killed and his death sparked violence as people gathered and set tires on fire. In a meanwhile, unknown gunmen opened fire at people protecting over the death of Kamal which left seven more people injured.

Injured were rushed to hospital and police and rangers troops were deployed following the incident but no arrest was made, sources claimed.

Source:One killed, 7 injured in Karachi violence